Backend developers to IST Products

At IST Products, our developers contribute to changing schools and how we learn, every day. They create a positive impact on society through products and solutions that give more people the chance to learn more.

Now we are looking for skilled developers to join our teams in our HQ in Växjö.

About IST Products

Products is where our next generation of administration software for schools and childcare is developed. Our solutions help the students, parents, teachers and managers to spend more time on what’s important, through responsiveness and automation.

We always strive for continuous improvement - of both our processes and products - and we dedicate much of our capacity to do so, each sprint. We encourage an innovative mind-set and distributed responsibilities to trigger commitment in each individual and team, enabling development of you as an individual as well as your profession.

About the job

If you ask us, there are many reasons to work at IST. There’s the free lunch in our own restaurant, the gym, our gaming room, flexible working hours, a fantastic health insurance…but what we’re really proud of is the fact that we are committed to making a difference in society. And it’s not just something we say, it’s one of the Board directives. It’s part of our Business Plan and something we measure and invest in. And now YOU can be part of making that difference to the students and teachers too, using your coding skills to change schools.

You will join one of our development teams, supported by functional and technical product owners and devops and with occasional collaboration with the service manager - all to provide our customers with outstanding service. Our architect steers our high level architectural direction and leaves a great level of freedom and responsibility to you and your team, making sure work is technically challenging but still with some outer boundaries.

Your profile

To be the right person for this job, you have a few years’ experience from development projects, you know your way around open source solutions and like us, you believe in the agile methodologies and processes.

You might have a Master or Bachelor of Science degree, and we believe you have great communication skills and a true commitment to the company, wanting to share your knowledge with not only the team but with the entire organization. As a person, you’re keen to take responsibility, you tend to make things happen and you welcome change.

Systemwise, we are backend heavy but frontend is a crucial part of our offer. If you consider yourself a full stack developer, then that’s great. Even though it’s your backend expertise we’re focusing on here, frontend knowledge is an advantage. The following skills and experience are required or valuable.

Required

Java

Spring

Hibernate

JUnit/TestNG

SQL

Continuous Integration

Software Version Control

Nice to have

JavaScript

Liquibase

Tomcat

Docker

Jenkins

Git

Oracle

Events / RabbitMQ

RESTful APIs / JSON

Ability to think from a user perspective

A sense for graphic design

Ability to fly

A sense of humour

HTML5

CSS3

Angular

Bootstrap

Docker

Node

npm

Apply

We’re looking to recruit several people for this position. Please send us your application as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Mathilda Nilsson, Country HR Manager, at mathilda.nilsson@ist.com.

Things to work with

Växjö (HQ)

Our values are:

Honest

We are trustworthy and reliable. We always keep our promises and we never promise more than we can deliver, therefor we can – and want to be – held accountable for our actions and decisions. We value transparency at all times, internally as well as externally. Trust is the foundation to great development.

Professional

We are business oriented and work with customer benefits in focus in everything we do. Our confidence and common sense govern our actions, helping us provide our customers, as well as our colleagues and partners, with qualified solutions to real problems. We are prepared for, and welcome, change which we believe will drive us forward.

Creative

We are passionate about new ideas and we continuously develop, integrate and find use for new technology. Through cooperation and communication we make the most of our resources and find new ways to help schools improve and be more efficient. We understand that interaction and empowered teams will help people grow and the better we are at helping each other, the better the outcome.

How we are and how we act at IST

Every employee at IST is a TwISTer. We are different and unique. This is a great strength – always finding ways of connecting, cooperating and collaborating to bring our different experiences, knowledge and personalities together. We have an open climate, choose dialogue over confrontation and listen before we speak. We believe that a sense of community is most likely to thrive amongst shared goals, within a common culture. Our values are our common ground. They say something about what we find important, what we are proud of and what we strive towards.

About IST

IST has worked close to schools for more than 30 years, making every day life easier and better for those working with or in schools. We empower the learning process by providing our customers with IT solutions, services and support. Half of the IST employees have a background as teachers or school leaders. Everything we do is about delivering the best possible value to our customers; the parents, teachers, students, system owners, administrators and principals.